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20 fevereiro 2015

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Exercise:

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from news reports. Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.

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1. Thousands of people have gathered across the UK to watch New Year's Eve fireworks to herald the start of 2015.

Some 100,000 __________ lined the River Thames in London for the first ticketed new year’s display.

2. Apple growers are expecting a "delicious and __________" early harvest after sustained fine weather.

3. In the 1976 anti-apartheid __________, black students were protesting against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in government schools.

4. Five rifles and four shotguns, along with __________ and thousands of pounds worth of jewellery, have been stolen from a property in Surrey.

5. In fact, the ancient Greek word "tyrannos" (from which our term comes) was originally a fairly neutral word for a sole ruler, good or bad.

Of course, there had been some very nasty monarchs and despots before Caligula. But, so far as we know, none of his predecessors had ever ticked all the boxes of a fully-fledged __________, in the modern sense.

Answers:

Some 100,000 revellers lined the River Thames in London for the first ticketed new year’s display.

Source: New year celebrations: Revellers gather in London and across UK http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-30645457

2. Apple growers are expecting a "delicious and juicy" early harvest after sustained fine weather.

Source: Fine weather brings ‘juicy’ early apple harvest http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28705265

3. In the 1976 anti-apartheid uprising, black students were protesting against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in government schools.

Source: Nelson Mandela aide race row shows social media perils http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-30880068

4. Five rifles and four shotguns, along with ammunition and thousands of pounds worth of jewellery, have been stolen from a property in Surrey.

Source: Firearms and jewellery stolen in Banstead burglary http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-31370718